seastar Posted April 7, 2009 Report Share Posted April 7, 2009 My Crown Tails had a successful spawn. The fry are two days old today. I tried to photograph them but they are too small. Here are photos of the parents: Photo of the mom. http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp162/s...os/DSC_0042.jpg Photo of the father looking after the eggs. http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp162/s...os/DSC_0838.jpg This photo is of the first spawn attempt - you can see the eggs falling from the female. http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp162/s...otos/2spawn.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingin' It Posted April 7, 2009 Report Share Posted April 7, 2009 Congrats! Beautiful fish! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishclubgirl Posted April 7, 2009 Report Share Posted April 7, 2009 Congrats to you and your fish. CTs are my personal faves!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackMumba Posted April 7, 2009 Report Share Posted April 7, 2009 :thumbs: Congrats!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lana Bollers Posted April 7, 2009 Report Share Posted April 7, 2009 They are beautiful, congrats can not wait to see how the fry color up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
werner Posted April 8, 2009 Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 So you're going to be setting up all those betta tanks soon, I hope? Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingin' It Posted May 4, 2009 Report Share Posted May 4, 2009 Just curiuos to know how the fry are doing?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corrosionjerry Posted May 5, 2009 Report Share Posted May 5, 2009 It would be nice to have someone post in the journal section the step by step process of spawning these and a few other spiecies of fish... The bettas look like a challenge... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishclubgirl Posted May 6, 2009 Report Share Posted May 6, 2009 It would be nice to have someone post in the journal section the step by step process of spawning these and a few other spiecies of fish...The bettas look like a challenge... They are!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seastar Posted May 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2009 Very interesting how the fry are growing. I did 2 spawns using the same male CT but different females, one week apart. Both in 5 gallon tanks with lots of Java moss and ivy leaf duck weed. The fry that are a week younger are 4 times larger than the others. The females are not that much different in size. All the babies are eating well and are healthy. I do regular water changes to both tanks. The fry that are bigger had quite a few hatch, but there are only three left. I think they ate the others. In the spawn tank with the older and smaller fry they are all the same size, and there are perhaps 7 to 10 or more. It is hard to count them because they are hidden in the plants. I feed them all fresh hatched brine shrimp and NLS ground up food that I sprinkle on the top of the water. It's a mystery to me why the younger ones are so very much smaller than the ones hatched a week later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackMumba Posted May 6, 2009 Report Share Posted May 6, 2009 Very interesting how the fry are growing. I did 2 spawns using the same male CT but different females, one week apart. Both in 5 gallon tanks with lots of Java moss and ivy leaf duck weed. The fry that are a week younger are 4 times larger than the others. The females are not that much different in size. All the babies are eating well and are healthy. I do regular water changes to both tanks. The fry that are bigger had quite a few hatch, but there are only three left. I think they ate the others. In the spawn tank with the older and smaller fry they are all the same size, and there are perhaps 7 to 10 or more. It is hard to count them because they are hidden in the plants. I feed them all fresh hatched brine shrimp and NLS ground up food that I sprinkle on the top of the water.It's a mystery to me why the younger ones are so very much smaller than the ones hatched a week later. There is a reason, the first batch had more fry, there for more competition for food source. The second batch had less fry so more food availablity. The fry actually don't eat each other.. the weak die off the strongest live usually the ones that did survive were the first to hatch. Usually they had more protein in the egg sack, this is why they are larger to begin with... the more fry the less growth, it holds true for all my batches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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